Split:Was Czecholovakia part of the Soviet Union? Or: Semper is still an idiot.

Originally Posted by SemperFidelis

it is incontrovertible that Czechoslovakia was part of the Soviet Union.

This is like the equivalent of a gorilla ripping off your genitals here, buddy. Quit it.

Except it wasn't.

Originally Posted by wikipedia

Established by four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR grew and from 1956 to 1991 politically contained 15 constituent or union republics — Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Uzbek SSR — joined in a strongly centralized federal union. After the USSR's collapse, all 15 SSRs became independent countries.

"Satellite nation" doesn't mean it was actually in the USSR.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SemperFidelis

I'm asserting that I'm surprised countries that nations in the former Soviet Union made it to the World Cup. I don't know why you're bringing in all this extraneous shit.

Except when the "extraneous shit" disproves your assertion completely.

Originally Posted by SemperFidelis

Right. If I was a country and was a "satellite nation" of a bigger entity, I AM IN NO WAY TO BE AFFILIATED WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED ENTITY DESPITE THE FACT THAT I AM POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPENDENT ON SAID ENTITY.

You're right.

You still lose.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by SemperFidelis

I got a source that delves deeper than any factbook

But it's the CIA factbook.

The CIA KNOWS EVERYTHING.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.